Roberto picked me up from my hotel in his Ford Fusion to start our tour. Yes, even though 90% of Brasilia’s famous sights are on the main street of the city, a car tour was the only way to go about seeing them all in one day. Like I’ve said before, not walker friendly. Roberto …
Kris
Yesterday was amazing. I didn't get a chance to blog about it, but now I'm sitting in Colorado Coffee and it's cold out and I'm wearing flip-flops, so I basically have no choice. Anyway. Yesterday we had an incredible opportunity to Skype with Kris Diaz, the playwright who wrote Chad Deity and was nominated for a …
Brasilia
Despite what TripAdvisor told me, the people at the front desk of my hotel do not speak English. That would have been fine if I knew that beforehand, but since I was expecting “Excellent English skills” I didn’t exactly do a lot of research, figuring it would be easy to just ask the front desk. …
Cognito
Well, Idris found out about my blog, so I've got to be more careful about what I say. Hopefully he doesn't find my secret blog where I just complain about him--no one tell him where that one is. Anyway, today we read a play called The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. It's by a guy …
Brazil Bound
Welcome to my blog detailing my venture grant! I suppose my 9-hour layover at the Miami Airport is a convenient time to write a first post. A quick introduction on me, where I’m going, and what I’m doing: I am a senior political science major with a focus on international relations. Last spring I studied abroad …
Hit the Wall
We read an incredible play today called Hit the Wall, by Ike Holter. It was a heavily dialogue-driven, witty, sad, razor-sharp, rhythmic play that I think will stick with me for a very long time. Hit the Wall is about the Stonewall Riot, an event in 1969 that many historians seem to agree was the catalyst for …
11 Pages
It's not good. It's not terrible either. It's just alright, but it's also the longest play I've ever written, so I've got that going for me, which is nice. I have not written a lot of fiction in my life. This play, while definitely angsty and almost definitely shitty, is still dialogue-driven, still meets the …
7-Page Regret
I'm 7 pages into my 10-pager, and I've fallen into every trap I promised myself I would avoid: I'm angsty, I'm not making jokes, I'm writing about things I haven't researched fully, and I don't know how I'm going to end it in the next 3 to 8 pages. Dialogue is really not my forte. …
The Weekend
I have a fifteen-page play due on Monday. I'm really not sure why I'm writing this blog entry right now, honestly--every waking moment should be spent on this play. I have a semi-story in my head, and about a page on paper. Right now my main concern is making it work without a lot of …
Medical Plot
That was trying to be a pun on "medical pot," but that's not important right now. We're in class right now discussing a student play about a writer who loses his wife to his incompetence in husbandhood in 1939, and we've spent an hour discussing reasons why it's so great and saying "I don't want …